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I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.
Maurice Sendak
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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
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Maurice Bernard Sendak
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I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents!
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Children do live in fantasy and reality they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.
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We all want to be renewed, don't we?
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I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we're not fantasizing, but we prefer to relegate fantasy to children, as though it were some tomfoolery only fit for the immature minds of the young. Children do live in fantasy and reality they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.
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I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.
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I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.
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Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it's hard to take him seriously.
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I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.
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Herman Melville said that artists have to take a dive and either you hit your head on a rock and you split your skull and you die … or that blow to the head is so inspiring that you come back and do the best work that you ever did. BUT you have to take the dive and you do not know what the results will be.
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I never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life is devoted.
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I'm totally crazy, I know that. I don't say that to be a smartass, but I know that that's the very essence of what makes my work good. And I know my work is good. Not everybody likes it, that's fine. I don't do it for everybody. Or anybody. I do it because I can't not do it.
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I wish you all good things. Live your life, live your life, live your life.
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All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.
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There's a mystery there, a clue, a nut, a bolt, and if I put it together, I find me.
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I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.
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Kids never get pissed at their parents. Unheard of.
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In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.
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I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more.
Maurice Sendak
From their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives, they continually cope with frustrations as best they can. And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.
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There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready.
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